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They represented a dry humor than aligns with my own.

Admittedly, my personal history of username selection isn’t without blemishes.

For OKC, I chose my initials punctuated by underscores, and tended to prefer equally minimalistic, cryptic self-representations, as opposed to, say, song lyrics or anything with “Brooklyn” affixed to it.

I was curious about whether my tendency to critique usernames more harshly than photos was universal, and decided to speak with a linguist about whether or not the language of our online dating avatars says something about who we are.

, a book that uses data from the dating site to draw conclusions about message language, message length, depressing discrepancies between male and female age preferences, and more.

But he concluded that from a data standpoint, usernames are too unique to draw specific conclusions.

“There’s too much variety in the names to really get a sense of whether one particular one affects incoming messages,” he told me in an email.